Category Archives: Quotes
“Death is creeping closer than usual right now. It is filling our minds, our ears and our screens. Many people are passing, Ebola fear is raging, systems and structures are crumbling. If you have felt depressed, heavy, confused or irritated, it is a natural response. This is our great underwater passing, this is the plunge into the dark sea. We will be born again from these sacred waters, but first we must face our fears. Loss, change, endings — these are all forms of death, and they all do one clear thing: they remind us that we are not in control. This terrifies us, doesn’t it? To think that there are forces greater than us over which we have no power? This is why close proximity to death brings up so much from the subconscious. It is happening now. It is calling out our shadows. You would do well to sit quietly and listen. Be with your feelings. Don’t deny them and don’t run from them. Do not label yourself as broken or wrong. Just be present to what is happening. In our avoidance of death, we have lost an important part of life. We have lost an intimate understanding of our natural selves. The death cycle will take you closer to your wild parts, the ancient ones, the parts that know death well. And they will tell you more about yourself than any book or master. What else but death can make you so fiercely aware of what truly matters? Let it shake you from your slumber. Let it remind you that you are part of a great and grand design, something much, much bigger than you alone. Let it teach you gratitude. Let it teach you love. Let it press deeply into your heart the blessing of each breath, each embrace, each moment we are here. It is this that death does best: It breathes life into the living.” ~Jessica Hesser
Art by Kerry Darlington
Thanks to Rebelle Society for the quote.
“I always want to think I was an alien, I used to think when I was young, that I was adopted by my mother because they found me in a spaceship and they let me out, and I was from a different planet. I wanted to be from a different planet really bad. Every night I would talk to my real parents and my real family in the skies. I knew that there were thousands of alien babies dropped off all over the place and I have met quite a few of them. It’s just something that I’ve always liked to toy with in my mind. It’s really fun to pretend that ya know, there is some special reason for me to be here and I feel really homesick all the time and so do the other aliens. And I only have a chance to come across a handful of other aliens the rest of my life… eventually one day well find out what we’re supposed to do.” -Kurt Cobain “Kurt Cobain: About a Son”-
“Whoever told you you can’t fly was afraid of the heights you’d reach if you tried.” ~Climbing PoeTree
Art by Juliana Kolesova
“Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.” ~ Anaïs Nin
“Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.” ~Eckhart Tolle
Art by Autumn Skye
“It stirs within us this Embryo of things to come… sighing and fluttering its way to our collective consciousness… This Holy Yearning flowing forth from the waters of the Womb.” ~Unknown
Art by Wojciech Siudmak
“Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.” ~Eckhart Tolle
“I believe that you’re great, that there’s something magnificent about you. Regardless of what has happened to you in your life, regardless of how young or how old you think you might be, the moment you begin to think properly, there’s something that is within you, there’s power within you, that’s greater than the world. It will begin to emerge. It will take over your life. It will feed you. It will clothe you. It will guide you, protect you, direct you, sustain your very existence, if you let it. Now, that is what I know for sure.” ~Michael Beckwith
Art by Victor Adame
“Be a reverse terrorist. Plot. Plan. Scheme and launch random acts of Love. Incite it. Invite it. Ignite it. Shake this world to its foundation. And enjoy yourself in the process.” ~Robert Mann
Art by Fabio Napoleoni
Under The Blue Door 